Amr al-Absi

Amr al-Absi (1980-4 March 2016), also known as Umar al-Absi or Abu Atheer al-Absi, was the "kidnapper-in-chief" of the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria and their Governor of Aleppo Governorate. He was killed in an airstrike on Aleppo on 4 March 2016.

Biography
Amr al-Absi was born in 1980 in Saudi Arabia, and he moved to Syria at some point in his life. al-Absi joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria after his brother at the start of the Syrian Civil War, and when his older brother Firas al-Absi was killed by Kitaib al-Farouq, he became the head of a jihadi brigade in Homs that became infamous for kidnappings. al-Absi was a member of the shura council and the propaganda chief of the Islamic State in its early days, persuading Abu Omar al-Shishani and other foreign fighters to defect to the new caliphate, and he controlled an army of writers, bloggers, and researchers who monitored social media. As the head of the social media campaign of the Islamic State, he was responsible for many kidnappings and the beheading videos that followed. Eventually, he was appointed Governor of Wilayat Aleppo, leading IS's forces in the fight against the Syrian Arab Army and Iran's advisors to Bashar al-Assad's government. On 4 March 2016, he was reported to have been killed in an airstrike, a major blow to the Islamic State's leadership.